The United States Naval Academy opened in Annapolis,
Maryland, with 50 midshipmen students and seven
professors. Known as the Naval School until 1850,
the curriculum included mathematics and navigation,
gunnery and steam, chemistry, English, natural
philosophy, and French.

The Naval School officially became the U.S. Naval Academy
in 1850, and a new curriculum went into effect, requiring
midshipmen to study at the academy for four years and to
train aboard ships each summer—the basic format that
remains at the academy to this day.

The first McDonalds in Moscow on opening day, 1990. It
was the largest McDonald’s in the world at the time, with
seating for 900 and a staff of 600 workers.

On August 15, 1969, the Woodstock music festival opened
on a patch of farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate
New York town of Bethel.

Promoters John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and
Michael Lang originally envisioned the festival as a way to
raise funds to build a recording studio and rock-and-roll
retreat near the town of Woodstock, New York.

Indianapolis businessman Carl G. Fisher first
envisioned building the speedway in 1905 and
construction began in March of 1909.

At one time the whole track used to be paved
with bricks. The bricks were replaced with
asphalt in the 1930’s.

In addition to the Indianapolis 500, the speedway
also hosts NASCAR‘s Verizon 200 and Pennzoil
150.

The  Speedway is currently owned by Roger
Penske‘s company Penske Corporation.

Carl Graham Fisher (1874–1938)

    
    
    
   
Roger Penske

The speedway is located in Speedway, Indiana.

One yard, of original bricks remain today 
exposed at the start-finish line.  

On July 24, 1998, the director Steven Spielberg’s World War
II epic, Saving Private Ryan, was released in theaters across
the United States. The film, which starred Tom Hanks and
Matt Damon, was praised for its authentic portrayal of war
and was nominated for 11 Academy Awards. It took home
five Oscars, for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best
Sound, Best Film Editing and Best Sound Effects Editing.

The film’s lengthy opening scene was a bloody re-enactment
of American troops landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy,
France, on June 6, 1944, D-Day.